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Nellie always painted from life - she would make preliminary
sketches if she could not return to the actual subject to finish her work.
Her mentor, Miss Sarah Reid, held very trenchant views about "copying" from
photographs, and the lesson stuck.
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Anemones
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Abstract
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Blossoms
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Roses
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Dahlias
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Bowl of fruit
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Yellow roses
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Hydrangeas
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Christmas roses
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Copper and yellow
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Roses
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A basket of onions
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Pink roses
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Poinsettia
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Vegetables, 1936
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Vuurpyle
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Zinnias
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| The windows that she designed for the Damantveld Church in Kimberley
are now, after fifty years, very faded by the sun. It is only the ones
facing south, which do not get dirct sunlight, that still retain some
colour. She painted a dozen backdrops for the glass display cases in the
natural history section of the McGregor Museum, showing the habitat of the
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